Mother-to-Be Protests Husband’s Incarceration
On Monday morning, a Lubavitcher woman launched a one-person protest outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The woman, who we will call N, is protesting the arrest of her husband.
On Monday morning, a Lubavitcher woman launched a one-person protest outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The woman, who we will call N, is protesting the arrest of her husband.
It was with much fanfare on Monday afternoon that head coach Rudy Garbalosa proudly announced the signing of 10-year old Ari Cohen to the Lynn Fighting Knights at a press conference surrounded by family and friends at the Lynn University Baseball Field in Boca Raton, FL.
The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education released an entertaining animated video to inform Jewish public school students about the Released Time Program, which has been running since the Frierdiker Rebbe founded it in 1941.
Rabbi Yechezkiel Tenenbaum begins with what has now become a routine account, at least, for him: “I am someone who first made news because of my beard.” By the way, “everyone calls me Chesky,” says this soft-spoken man who grew up in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sure, it may have been fun at first: a couple of days off to catch up on errands or yard work, or visit family. But as the U.S. government shutdown enters its third week—it officially began at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1—federal employees are starting to feel the backlash of being caught up in a partisan battle over government spending.
Orthodox Jews call it a bubu. Religious Muslims call it a puff. Both are based on the same idea: stuffing something other than a woman’s real hair under her headscarf to create the illusion of long flowing tresses beneath.
Several Shluchim traveled from Moscow to the city of Slava-Nakovini in southern Russia to produce wine under stringent Rabbinic supervision for this coming Pesach.
Although Columbus “discovered” America, obviously these lands and their inhabitants existed before he arrived. They were just unknown to those living on the other side of the globe.
Five firefighters were hurt while battling a fire at a Crown Heights funeral home this morning. The injured firefighters were taken to New York Methodist Hospital, with one in serious condition.
On Sunday, Shomrim were notified that a man was harassing and touching people – including women and children – on Kingston Ave.
Chasidic star Benny Friedman sang Matisyahu’s hit single ‘One Day’ at a wedding in Queens, Wednesday, October 9.
Dozens of friends and relatives gathered at the home of the Newfield family in Crown Heights on Sunday, October 13, to celebrate the completion of a Sefer Torah honoring the memory of Shimmy Newfield, on what would have been his 28th birthday.
Chazzan Chaim Kriss, a long time member of Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch in Hallandale Beach, celebrated his 99th birthday this past Shabbos Lech Lecho, the Parsha in which Avrohom Avinu is 99 years old.
Boruch Sholom Greenberg (Morristown, NJ) and Rivkah Soroka (Berlin, Germany)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
I first learned about oxytocin while working as the Chief of Staff of a global autism center. The famed doctor and researcher, Eric Hollander was working on a study, which would use an intranasal oxytocin spray on people with autism.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday through Thursday, October 14-17 for Columbus Day and a Muslim holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.